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THE OREGON STATESMAN; SALEM; OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1928 is (4 IaanaS Daily Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUbOsUINO COMPANY SIS tenth ComnarcUl Straat, Balam. Or.joa Kaaaa-ar tufif Ecitor The Oregon Sta tesmaMsl1!!??. .jjssjsf. ology and criminology. This would lead to the indeterminate sentence absolutely indeterminate. That is a prerequisite to the reduction of crime. We will probably never reach that point without some such permanent board,' the advice of which will at length be taken, as authoritative. Statutes and ideas eenturies old are largely wrong; but they are not easy of correction, because of the divided and perverse beliefs of the majority of the people, who base their conclusions on wrong information or prejudice or ignorance, or all three. & J. Haatrieka V . Irt B. JacSnarrr - . Masai KaJpa O. Carta .... Dlty Editor Z eV D- Carlaaa - P porta Editor Baaalla Bmaefc . - SooUty Ed.tar Ralpa. H. KbUlit AdTtrtUiaa Maaafar Ltajrd E. Stifflr - - Sopario.Uaaa W. H. Heodartoa, Circulation Maaafar E. A. Rootaa - Uvoatock fcaitor W. O. Coaaar - - Paaltry U1M - . WOtMSM 07 TBB ASSOOIATBD HUI Tba jUaariata Praaa U axdaaivaiy entitle ta Ua aaa fat paDUcatias at aU aiaaatcaaa. craditW to it ay sot aUarwiaa craditad la tkia par aad alaa taa toaal inri pubLaaea aeraia. ' , , BTTEIITEBS OTTZCZS; Salactad Otagoa Hawipapara Pae-iic Co, it RavrvaecUUvaa Daty TTT' 12?- Saearity. Bid.; San rraaeUaa, Saaraa 31s.; Lm wi.viiaBNr oi i-oiamerca mac. T. Clark Ct S,w York. 128 13 W, lat St.; ChieaCa. Marooalta BIS. Baaiaaaa Offica.. Saaiaty Editor. .23 tr S 10 TtLEIHOKXS Nawt rep.23 a; lOfl a Daaartmaat . Cireolatija Uffiea Sa Xatarad at tha Poat Offiea ia Salraa. Or con, a -.. -r!a a attar. Februarv 14. 102A While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made. Behold, the bridegroom cometh, so ye out to meet him. Matt. 25:5 and . THE $3 AUTO LICENSE BILL THE VALENTINE STATE This is the birthday of Oregon as a state. The act of con gress admitting Oregon into the Union was approved Feb ruary 14, 1859 And thus Oregon became the Valentine State. The struggles leading up to the final consummation of statehood were remarkable. In the first territorial legis lature, on August 20, 1849, a bill was offered "to take the expression of the people for and against a convention to form a state government." This bill was not passed. In the next session, in 1850, there was a similar bill; also in the session of 1851-2, and in the following session of 1854 the bill offered was passed, and the election was held June 5, 1854, resulting in defeat, by a negative majority of 869, the vote being 3210 for and 4079 against statehood. The very next year another election was held, with a negative majority of 415, the vote being 4420 for and 4835 against statehood. But, undaunted, the friends of statehood forced a third election in 1856, with a diminished negative result i 249, the vote being 4186 for and 4435 against the proposi tion. By that time the slavery question in Oregon was hot Sentiment with regard to statehood had changed radically The final election was held July 7, 1857, resulting in a majority for statehood of 5938, the total vote being 7617 for and only 1679 against statehood. In the seven years of territorial existence, the question of statehood had been voted upon by the territorial legislature in one form or another nine times, and by popular vote four times, while congress had: considered Oregon statehood bills at two sessions. The figures of the votes above given were taken from the files of The Statesman. Hon. Asahel Bush, the then editor and proprietor of this newspaper, was one of the most pow erful and most staunch and able advocates of statehood. There followed a terrific fight in congress. The senate had passed the bill by a vote of 35 to 17. The final scene was enacted February 12, 1859, when the debate closed in the house, and the vote stood 114 for and 103 against a reflection of the bitter days leading up to the war of the states. The new state of Oregon superseded the territory on the eve of the war to take its place in national affairs. There were wild scenes in the first state legislature, which me September 10, 1860, in which a resolution was offered to surrender statehood But out of the turmoil finally came'the election of Col. E. D. Baker, Republican, for the long term in the United States senate, and Col. J. W. Nesmith, Douglas Democrat, for the short term; And instead of resigning sovereignty, or joining the se cession movement, the state of Oregon decided to go on with the Union. And the Valentine State has remained true to the prin ciDles upon which our government was formed. She has become one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of the Union WHAT ABOUT SOCIETY? (Portland Journal.) Sobbing out a plea to the judge to suspend the sentence, a 20-year-old girl who passed a forged check on a Spokane store is to go to the Walla Walla penitentiary to serve she months. She was married at 15 and has a 3-year-old daughter. What of the man in a marriage from which her legacy was a child and forgery? What of the little one of 3 years, whose mother, from causes that the public doesn't know, is in the penitentiary? Society wails and laments about that big section of hu manity that goes wrong. With what intelligence is society dealing with the weaklings, some of whom fall because they never had a chance for their white alley? Not much of anything, but applying the same old meth ods,! including court processes and some laws based on stat utes of centuries ago. Not much of anything but throwing the weaklings and derelicts and hardened crooks into the same hopper and grinding them out into the same human backwash. (Eugene Register.) Mr. Isaacson, who writes on this page today, asks: "Why is not an automobile property ?" Automobiles are property They were formerly subject in Oregon to the general prop erty tax. They were removed from the general property lists and subjected to special taxation for three reasons : (1) Because people objected vigorously to paying property taxes on them. (2) Because large numbers of automobiles escaped property taxation altogether. (3) Because it was decided wisely, this writer thinks to make the automobile bear the entire cost of Oregon's state highway system. Automobiles can be put back on the general property rolls and relieved of special license taxation. But if that is done, three things will happen. They are: (1) A very large number of cars, especially transient cars, fll escape taxation altogether. (2) The tax paid by automobiles will go, not exclusively to the roads, as at present, but to the school districts, the cities, the port districts and so on. (3) The road program, which will no longer be supported by automobile taxation, will have to receive support from general property taxes. It is proverbial that you can not get blood from a turnip. Similarly, you cannot expect the automobile to build the roads and also support the schools, the cities, the port dis tricts, etc. Whatever property gains by putting automobiles on the tax rolls it will lose by having to pay for its share of the roads. It is as broad as it is long. The present system is an adequate and reasonably satis- . . . . . .. , :j factory system. Why abandon it until alter we nave paiu off our outstanding bond issues? After that, of course, we can make changes as we see fit. Salem has been singularly free from the depredations of such crooks as the ones who robbed the BHgh theater safe, partly because of the vigilance of our police officers. Ihe place for such crooks is in the penitentiary; and once put there, they should remain indeterminately. For life, unless definitely reformed. The OUTER GATE By OCTAVUS ROY COHEN CBJrTOAI. rBSSS AMI, la. The above from the Portland Journal is, like a great deal of the matter written about crime and criminals, merely in line with the complaints or a common scoia Not at all constructive. In Oresron society is doing a little above the average in the states of this country , A 1 iV . muP MnVMno af 4-VlA r or instance, we are Biuppiug me race w. wutuua at hv sterilization, at the institution for the feeble minded the race from which come many of the outcasts of the "submerged tenth the people who fill our jails and ' orisons and asylums for the insane and institutions for the feeble minded: those who are the -pauper charges of our public funds, etc etc. We are building at the state penitentiary, through the operations of the revolving fund law, an Industrial Institu : tion ; one that will teach all the men and women who come to that institution the habits and methods of work; will teach them trades. ' And will render the institution self supporting, besides giving a small wage to workers, so that the innocent victims on the outside may be helped and the families kept together, and a high rate of reformations ac- complished. We have the Lewis law, much like the Baumes law of New York, that will gradually reduce the proportionate number of confirmed criminals at large. ' . Oh, we are not doing enough. Jd&ny more things we ;;xonasunj. pi- men and rxm.eyjasr Chapter 26 y'VE been seeln' this house rever since it was built, Mr. Borden. Never did seem like to me folks really lived in places like this. Hind of get a real kick out of Tisitin one." 'You'll set used to It soon enough." "Gosh! Never to nothing Uke this. But lt'a a great thing zor Bob. here ain't it, kid?" And he placed a big paw on Terrj'a knee. I'm not sure." Bob smuea shyly. "Sometimes I Uke it lor granted and then I find I'm wrong. I never was used to any thing like it before." The eyes of the two girls met. For a second they stared leveuy. then both smiled. Here was a common bond which they recog nized and welcomed. Each was amazed that ahe understood the other. They were surprised by the mutuality of their attraction. They were the two mothers of the one man. and as the three men immersed themselves in small talk, the girls drew together on the lounge. The hum of deep masculine voices came to them Borden di recting the conversation and steer- in it away from the shoal waters; occasionally Tod shannon's big laugh and Borden's small metal lic one rang through the room. Bob was smiling. He was proud of Tod and Kathleen. He saw that the girls liked each other but he did not hear Kathleen's frank question: "We really want to talk about Bob. don't we. Miss Borden?" Nor did he hear Lois's equally honest answer. "Of course we do." Save for an occasional reassur ing glance in the direction of the three men, Lois devoted her entire attention to Kathleen. The bond between them had been Instant and mutual. They were as far apart as the poles, but there was no difference in the straight glances which each reserved for the other, no difference In their interest in Bob Terry. There was no hint of combathre ness. Each girl recognized the sterling in the other and admired It. They accepted their common meeting ground, and each In a second, completely altered-her pre conceived ideas. True, they both probed for hidden feelings, but their frank likeness for each other made that a difficult task. It was Lois who voiced the first question : "Don't you think Bob has Im proved recently? "Tremendously. It's the work that has done It." "The particular work he Is do ing?" "No-." Kathleen shook her head. "I can't say I think that. It is rather in his just having something to do -a Job to go to every morning." ! "You're right. He hasn't been easy to handle, i suppose you know him better than I do tne underlying man. that is. And If yon do,, you eaa readily enough visualise the way he hag brooded around the house ai though he were deeply hurt and afraid of being struck again." Kathleen smUed. "You do nn- "But he doesn't think I do. He thinks I am only sorry." "I see " The girl with the midnight hair was too human not to be conscious of a heart lilt at this confession. "I guess that's why he and I have hit it off so well together. I never was sor ry for him but I did understand. Of course, my work " " In Mr. Carmodya office?" "Yes. That g-ave me an Insight which a non-working girl could not possibly have. And the fact that Uncle Todd looks on Bob al most as a son. Yon see, they were ceU-mates." They looked at each other. The smiles had been erased from their Hps. They spoke now of tragedy, but they did It honestly and fear lessly. "It is difficult to restore a man's confidence in himself 'and the world when he has been through what Bob has. You knew him before. Miss Borden; wasn't he sensitive unusually receptive to impressions?" "! think so. I don't know him very well. He was a sort of pro tege of Dad's and I met him oc casionally, but not often enough to know him well. Yet I'd say that he was sensitive; that he was an idealist and a romanticist and that life could etch easily and deeply on his soul." Kathleen shifted her glance briefly to the deep-ly lined, oldish young face of the man whom they discussed. Her question came sharply and was apparently irrele vant: "You've never been Inside a prison, have you, Miss Borden?" "No-o. But I shall visit one." Kathleen understood what she meant. It was a final effort to understand something of what Bob bad experienced. "Even then' said Kathleen, "you won't understand entirely. You'll get a momentary glimpse. and you'll be horrified. Yet youH be pleasantly surprised, too. Pris ons now aren't the prisons of fic tion. They aren't pest houses: they're clean and sanitary. What you wUl never learn from a single visit is the phychoiogy of the place. That s how to understand prisons: to have someone there that you love then in- the middle of your enjoyment to stop and reflect that at that very moment this person is gazing Into a granite-wailed courtyard through Iron bars; that he is a slave, a creature of a war den's whim or a guard's ill hum or. I went often to the prison while Uncle Todd was there, and I'd say that the greatest thing a man is deprived of is the privilege of re taliation. He must accept what ever comes his way. ' If he has rights, he dare not voice them. And when I figure that all the three years-Bob was there he was eaten with a bitterness born of the fact that he knew he was inno cent I don't wonder. Miss Bor den, that he came out with a criminal psychology." Lola looked ly, startled. "Did he?" "Certainly "Dad suggested that and I wouldn't believe him. He said that was the principal reason he invited Boh to our home and of fered him everything of material comforts BIRTHPLACE OF A CANDIDATE i i - - : .aajajsaa: - - .. J - ay POOL - 2v X , V IS Jl Here is the birthplace of Herbert Clark Hoover, secretary of cof Ttnerce and a candidate for the Republican presidential nominatio 'Hoover -was born in this house, at West Branch, Jju on Aui 10, 1874. dencies he might have absorbed. After all, crimes seem to be com mitted chiefly through the de sire for money or what money wiU buy and Dad thought " "I understand, .Miss Borden, and I think more of your father than I did. I didn't believe he had probed . as deeply .as you say he has." "Dad is more human than he is credited with being." The girls glanced at the im maculate, trim figure of Peter Borden. He was leaning forward, listening to some low-voiced story by Todd Shannon. Apparently, he was absorbed in what the giant was saying; certainly he had put Todd perfectly at ease. Kathleen smiled gratefully. "Perhaps he is." "You doubted it?" "Of course. Why not be hon est? I only knew of him through John Carmody. and Bob Terry." I see " Lois' eyes clouded. And Bob hates him, doesn't he?" Kathleen hesitated before an swering. Then she paid the other girl the compliment of honesty. "Ye8." "I knew it. He-told me so." Lois put her hand on the other's arm. "Will it always be that way, Miss Shannon?" "I don't know. Perhaps I'll sur- price you when I Bay that I don't blame him. You see. 1 know so much better than yon ever can know what he has been through. Anrf f ean niit mvaolf In Hid rtl a to the extent of feellne what he! nas felt. For three years be has schooled himself to hate your father. He hasn't thought of any think else, because there wasn't anything else to think about. Perhaps now that he is working the feeling will pass off." "In John Carmody's office?" "Even there. It Isn't Mr. Car mody, you see; it's the fact of be ing regularly employed of taking his place in the. world again that will make the difference. I hope." Lois was silent for a moment. "I want to aBk you something. Miss Shannon." "Please ' "Very well. It is this: John Carmody hates my father. There is a good deal you can't tell me because you are his secretary. But I have the idea that Bob's employ ment by Carmody isn't entirely co incidental that it is somehow linked up with that man's desire to wreck Dad." Kathleen flushed. "I cannot comment on that, of course." "I didn't expect you to. Frank ly, the Carmody thing is not im portant in my mind only I'm so afraid that Bob is falling into a net. Oh! It probablv strikes von as silly but it is my intuition and I can't help being frightened." "For Bob?" "Yes." Again their eyes met aud held. They knew that they were allies and rivals. "I see Bob In the office every day," said Kathleen. "I watch himjretty closely." "And." suggested Lois, softly, "you are trying to shelter him?" "Yes." A pause. Then, "Thank Miss Shannon." (To be Continued) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO o o (From columns of the Statesman, Feb. 14, 1903) Edgar Meresse will represent Willamette in the state oratorical After fiftv years of prohibition Vermont has voted to try local option in the sale of liquor. C. F. Royal and Son got the contract for constructing a new bridge over Mill creek on 12th street. The bd was $590. Philadelphia Clarence S. Dar row, attorney, was greeted with applaust when he appeared here in defense of anthracite miners. A professor of Greek in North western University says the only way to elecate the stage rs to have plays censored by a group of "rep resentative moral citizens." Freewater Five thousand acres of dry lands between this Point and Hudson Bay are to be irrigated by an enterprise which the newly formed Milton, Free water and Hudson Bay Irrigation company will finance. i Bits For Breakfast -- I you. OXE LAP AHEAD It was speeder's day in the po lice court. The first offender cowed he was traveling only fif teen miles an hour when appre hended. Next a notorious fast driver told the Judge he was go ing only ten miles an hour. "And how fast were you go ing?" asked the judge of Tim O'Brien, third In line. "May it please the court." said Tim with straight face. "I wuz backin' up, Yer Honor." Oregon's bfrthdav a "a This being the Valentine state. which means that Oregon is the sweetheart state of the Union. S The Better Homes week exhibi tions and programs at the armory are very good and creditable. a "a Not overlooking the cooking school and baking contest there, "a "a Salem.is tonight entertaining the biggest show that has come this way for four years the "Hit the Deck" hallelujah company, with 68 people and two car loads of scen ery. a Dolling Up the Freakg "You say your sister makes up jokes; then she's a humorist?" "No; she works in a beauty par lor. Boston Transcript. "a "a V "I vant some powder." "Mennen's?" "No, vimmens." "Scented?" "No. I vill take it mit me." Columbia Dispatch. V Or Dress la 'Phone Booth A dancer spun around on her toe 38 times of all the useless stunts!" "Oh, I don't know. It would come in handy if she ever had to get dinner in a kitchenette." Life. V rower of Thrift Baldwin "Well, we've stopped the crime wave in Edinburgh." George V "Fine.". How did you do it?" Baldwin "By charging for room and board in the jails." Judge. That cracking sound you hear occasionally ie not the breaking of the ice during the January thaw. It is only the noise made by the fracture or a few New Year res olutions. THE MORNING ARGUMENT AUNT HET Qrsfflea POOR PA By CTlaade OalUa "I never did like the woman Doc Snow married, an' I wouldn't call on her if I knowed any other way to learn the new gossip." (Copyrifht. 191. rabriaHara Brndicata.) "Aunt May is rich, but she's a widow an' she never gives any thing but a widow's mite to char ity." (Copyright, lift. PutHattera Syndicate t By William It. Castle, Jr. Assistant Secretary of State (William Richards Castle, Jr., assistant secretary or state, was born in Honolulu in 1878. He was graduated from Harvard in 1900 In 1906 he accepted the post of assistant dean at Harvard college where he remained till 1913, Cas tle was appointed director of the bureau of communication, Ameri can National Red Cross, in which capacity he served from 1917 to 1919. In 1919 he became chief of western European affairs division of the state department and later was appointed assistant secretary of state by President Coolidge.) ' I believe that when the pursuit of peace become a fad, the cause of peace becomes a fad, the cause many altogether good and other wise Intelligent men and women who believe that when once an ideal has been written into law, or into a treaty, it becomes an in violable principle. There are many, for example,, who believe that if the United States signed agreements with other nations to outlaw war, or. treaties guaranteeing that under no circumstances should we go to war, there would be no war. But this is to ignore the realities, to ignore human weakness, to miss the fact that nations are not sub-, lime moral entities, but rather groups of fallible and passionate human beings, or as Mr. Hoover once admirably expressed the idea, "national character is the sum total of the moral fibre of indi viduals." Permanent peace cannot be achieved by waving a magician's wand; It is the result of the growth of character and of under standing, of the gradual elimina tion of the causes of internation al misunderstanding, of willing ness to let others live their own lives as they see fit, so long as their choice does not interfere with the happiness of the rest of the world, of a -consistent and un selfish support of national rights. Every fair-minded person knows that the United States has not the smallest desire to go to war with anyone. And beyond this negative statement every fair-minded per son knows also that the United States is determined to maintain an honorable peace with aH tha world. The department of state exists largely for the purpose of maintaining this honorable peace and our efforts along this line cannot be measured by proposals for arbitration treaties or for pacts to prevent war. r Read the Classified Ads Twenty Mile Trip By Ski Made Possible By Tunnel BERLIN (A P) A twenty mile trip by skis down a mountain side has been made possible by the building of a shaft or tunnel through the summit of the Zugs pitze, Germany's highest peak. The summit was placed within easy reach of tourists about a year ago," when a suspended railway began its operations. Thousands of visitors, for many of whom the view over the wonders of the Ba varian alpine landscape would oth erwise have been impossible, were thereby enabled to reach the peak. Ski fans next suggested that som way ought to be devised by which the Plattferner, a plateau south of the Zugspltze from where on there is a clear way ahead for 20 miles down to Garmisch-Part-enkirchen, be made easily acces sible. The suggestion was compiled with by boring a shaft 2,300 feet long, five feet wide and seven feet high from the summit to the Platt ferner. Lovers of winter sports Our colleges have gained 25 per cent in enrollment during the past five years. This ought to make for bigger and better football teams. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EXECUTIVE ARRIVES Pilfer wouldn't laeo A ant a hi T4aK. dftnlT vmir In the war r. aad Mrs. Burt Brown Barker, ahn i-HtA t Mai..a w- so he from New York. 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The trip by skis from the Platt ferner down to Garmisch-Parten klrchen offers Incomparable charms, both in respect of land scape and from the purely sport ing viewpoint. Schaefer's Herbal Cough Syrup- One of the Finest (Cough syrups made Gives Immediate Relief) From Coughing and Throat Irritation Sold only at Schaef er's DRUG STORE 135 North Commercial SI. Phone 197 . Penslar Agency Original Yellow Front ST' J Becke & Hendricks 189 N. High St. Telephone 161 IX."7. FREE VOTING BALLOT This ballot is good for 200 rotes for the candidate in The Oregon Statesman Subscription Campaign, whose name is written on it. Do not fold. Trim, c Name 'Address VOID AFTER MARCH 10TH, 1928 ANYONp CAN VOTE FOR FRIENDS aJ r.